Wild Trail Slot Review
A pale dirt trail winds up through a sunlit sandstone canyon, past gold-lit cliffs and hazy blue mesas, before disappearing behind the reels of Wild Trail. It’s lovelier packaging than a 40-line classic usually gets, and it’s covering something honest: a plain five-reel payer that hasn’t dressed itself up as anything else. Underneath the artwork it runs at 95.32% RTP on a 5×4 grid with 40 paylines.
Fazi has built this one for players who like their slots simple, and its back catalogue of October Hot 40, Triple Wild Crown and Very Hot 10 Extreme tells the same story. One symbol does most of the work here, and free games are the only round on offer. What the canyon holds is worth walking into.
Stacked Wilds and the 40 Lines
All pays run left to right from the leftmost reel, and only the highest win on each selected line is paid. Scatter symbols are the exception, paying at any position on screen. Forty paylines on a 5×4 grid is a generous count, and the game splits them across two pages of its paytable, showing lines 1 to 20 and then 21 to 40.
The Wild symbol is stacked and can appear on all five reels, substituting for every symbol except the Bonus. It’s also the richest symbol on the board: five wilds on a line pay 50 times the total bet, comfortably ahead of anything else. A full stack does double duty, completing other wins and building wins of its own.
The animal symbols carry the middle of the paytable. Bears and bison lead the regulars, with eagles and wolves just behind, a rabbit-flavoured A below them and the royals at the foot of the ladder. All values are multiples of the total bet:
- Wild: 1x for three, 5x for four, 50x for five
- Bear/Bison: 0.5x for three, 2x for four, 10x for five
- Eagle/Wolf: 0.5x for three, 1.5x for four, 6x for five
- A/Rabbit: 0.2x for three, 1x for four, 4x for five
- 10, J, Q and K: 0.1x for three, 0.5x for four, 2.5x for five
With the wild stacked on every reel, the shape of a good session is easy to picture: a couple of full stacks straddling the middle reels, each one completing lines across the 40 on offer. A single wild filling a royal line pays a fraction of that, which is why the stacks matter more than any individual symbol win.
The step from three symbols to five is where the paytable keeps its distance. Five bears pay four times what five royals do. Even the jump from three to four on a single symbol often doubles or quadruples the return, so the middle symbols aren’t just decorating the reels.
That steepness cuts both ways. Three royals return a tenth of the bet, which registers as a nudge rather than a win, while three bears give half the bet back and four eagles pay 1.5x. The money in this paytable lives almost entirely at the top of each symbol’s ladder.
Bonus Scatters and Free Games
The Bonus symbol is a scatter that appears on all reels and pays at any position on screen, so it doesn’t need to sit on a payline to count. Three, four or five of them trigger the free games round, and the awards step up sharply with each extra scatter:
- 3 Bonus symbols: 10 free games and 5x the total bet
- 4 Bonus symbols: 20 free games and 10x the total bet
- 5 Bonus symbols: 30 free games and 15x the total bet
That scatter pay arrives alongside the spins rather than instead of them, which softens the cost of getting there. A five-scatter entry hands you 30 free games plus an immediate 15x return on the triggering spin, before a single free spin has played out.
Additional free games can be triggered during free games, so a good round can keep extending itself. Land three or more Bonus symbols again while the feature is running and the next batch is added to the meter.
As in the base game, only the highest win is paid on each selected line and per scatter combination. Inside the round, nothing changes: the same reels, the same stacked wilds and the same 40 lines run as they do outside it, with the meter counting down instead of the balance.
There’s no multiplier on top, no symbol upgrade, no second bonus round, no wheel, no pick-me, and no option to buy your way in. The free games are the feature, in full. A retrigger mid-round is the only event that changes the arithmetic.
Because the entry awards are flat rather than scaled by anything happening inside the feature, every batch of free games is worth exactly what the triggering scatters say it’s worth. A retriggered round of 20 pays the same as a first-time round of 20. What you see on the list above is what the round delivers.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 6.8/10
This is a slot about waiting for wilds, and if that sounds like a criticism it isn’t meant as one. The canyon looks lovely while you wait, and when a couple of full stacks land together it pays across half the board at once, which is a better show than most 40-liners manage.
The free games are the best thing here, because the entry is paid twice over: 5x, 10x or 15x on the triggering spin plus up to 30 games, and the round can keep adding more. The weakness is that the bonus doesn’t build on anything. Every spin inside it is a base game spin with a different counter, so the peak of this game and the peak of its bonus are the same peak.
That will suit players who enjoy a handsome, honest lines slot where one strong mechanic carries the weight, and it will leave anyone chasing layered bonus rounds cold. For a slow evening watching the sun sit low over the mesas, it’s good company.
Wild Trail FAQs
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How many free games does Wild Trail award?
Three Bonus scatters award 10 free games, four award 20 and five award 30. The triggering scatter combination also pays 5x, 10x or 15x the total bet respectively. -
Can free games retrigger in Wild Trail?
Yes. Additional free games can be triggered during the free games round, so landing three or more Bonus symbols again adds another batch to the meter. -
What does the Wild symbol do in Wild Trail?
The Wild is stacked and appears on all five reels. It substitutes for every symbol except the Bonus, and it’s also the game’s top payer, with five wilds on a line worth 50 times the total bet. -
Which is the highest paying symbol in Wild Trail?
The stacked Wild. Five of them on a payline pay 50 times the total bet, ahead of the Bear/Bison at 10x and the Eagle/Wolf at 6x. -
Does the Bonus scatter need to land on a payline?
No. The Bonus symbol is a scatter and pays at any position on screen, so it counts wherever it lands on the grid. -
Does Wild Trail have a bonus buy option?
No. There’s no way to purchase the free games round; the only route in is landing three or more Bonus scatters in normal play. -
What is the RTP of Wild Trail?
Wild Trail runs at an RTP of 95.32%. -
How many paylines does Wild Trail have?
Wild Trail has 40 paylines on its 5×4 grid, shown across two paytable pages covering lines 1 to 20 and 21 to 40.
